Justin Meldal-Johnsen & Ken Andrews - Pensado's Place

We're excited to have Producer, Songwriter, and Bassist Justin Meldal-Johnsen and Producer / Songwriter Ken Andrews back with us on the 200th episode of Pensado's Place!
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[@busyworksbeats]

I just love your personalities. Thank you for all your work

[@DennisAlvey]

Way to cut Ken off at around 52 minutes..... Sometimes, i just think you guys need like.... Interview school or something....

[@TriangleWaveRecords]

yeah, wtf? I know you love fire marshals but let the man talk...

[@shatteredsquare]

39:07 justin.exe has stopped working

[@simplezgoof]

Ken Andrews and Greg Edwards are the reason Justin Picked up a WAL Bass all those years ago

[@arturolc90]

JMJ's face at 40:26 is like "Are you fucking kidding me?!"

[@keithruddell1800]

how about the second he walked in when he was told how short he was? that was a good face too. it wasn't very fair to JMJ!

[@jasonjasonjasonjasonjason]

Arturo Lopez also at 1:00:00 to 1:01:00 during that whole rant

[@keithruddell1800]

MyGameplaying lol

[@jaysonscott187]

Man this is pretty stinkin cool. All these guys.

[@admarhermans1]

Justin Meldal-Johnsen, for me, has been ever since the early '90's a very inspiring bassplayer who's (in-and-out-of-the-box) playing, taste, flavours and noticable attitude represents everything I loved about (low-frequencies in) music from the past, present and what might be a or the future. He matched so extremely well with the bands and artists (and the albums he played on)! For four or five years, I also noticed his work as a producer and really love his work. I discovered some great artists, bands (and their bassists) and inspiring musical flavours I didn't know untill now . But I sure hope to see and hear him as a bassplayer for years to come!

[@RememberingGames]

I'm pulling my Waves Tunes right tonight. Great ITL!

[@DennisBastian]

Happy number 200 guys! Man I've learned so much from these shows... More than what I learned about music in university I can tell you that! Thanks guys!

[@SocialGore]

Please try to get Kurt Ballou, David Bottrill, Andy Wallace, Trent Reznor, and Garth Richardson as guests!

[@MrSemvdCrommert]

REZNOR!

[@louderthangod]

Kurt Ballou would great.

[@erickeriksson9742]

Congratulations! long live!

[@TheLEASIDE]

Love you guys! so much amazing learning! THANKS! :D

[@braincoral9866]

happy birthday guys. Keep it up! See you at 300!!

[@ceejaybizzle]

Man...great trick on that ITL. Sounds awesome!

[@MrAdrianloera]

Omg it takes 30 min to get started 😱

[@76darocha]

happy 200th :) well done guys and keep up the amazing work!!

[@thasquid9185]

Ken looks like Dave Gahan's love child

[@AndrewGomez]

I see Graham Cochrane up front!

[@flaminhairhr]

Wow all Herb does is interrupt and restate everything they said in a very drawn out fashion. There is no need for him.

[@PeacefulLunatic]

Does anyone know exact name of the song and its artist played in ITL? Thanks

[@jessedurancrelin5332]

DUDE HIT A Bb not a G- -7 in the chord

[@yyguuyg]

Haha, I know, right? "Guitar players, we all know our chords" Yes, I do know my chords. I can also differentiate a Bb from a G on the keyboard...

[@watchoutguy123]

k LOL

[@whoisTB]

Awesome ITL! #HOUSE

[@Charlyfromthenuclearcity]

Ken Andrews coming in at 22:10.

[@RichardRosiles]

Bought Waves Tune after watching this.

[@EtcEtcAndEtc]

warble warble warble. If only the artist could sing a harmony or something. Imagine that

[@KeithHutchinsonYT]

at 14/15 mins the guy (Jake) is talking Cm but has no clue. In WaveTunes he is pointing at G and talking C, he talks about E and it is Eb being the chord Cm and then says to Dave, hey and the next cool harmony is a C and according to his screen he is adding a Bb the b7, therefore making the chord Cm7. The song Great Pretender comes to mind. Oops!!!

[@drewstapleton231]

I just came to read the comments and see if someone else noticed haha! How did this guy (Jake) decide on his chord then? Must have been by ear. Fake it till you make it baby!

[@davidmood5161]

The key of the song is Cm, but not the first chord of the chorus. The chord progression of the chorus goes like this: Eb - Gm - Cm. So the first chord consists of the notes Eb, G and Bb, and that is what he is showing. The only thing correct is, that he should have said E flat instead of E. But it's not so easy to talk and do the thing at the same time.

[@KeithHutchinsonYT]

David Mood Beg to differ, the chord prog is Cm Bb Ab with the G&Bb harmonies above adding to the Ab making Abmaj9 .... Hey, we're all on the road to nowhere ao who cares.... have fun

[@davidmood5161]

Keith Vernon-Hutchinson Yes you are right, it's Cm Bb Ab, my bad. Then I'm not sure what the guy was doing or showing.

[@KeithHutchinsonYT]

Not blind to anything, there are a number of ways to do that, eg Vielklang, Melodyne or of course with humans, real singers, who even possiibly sight read music and deliver a unique and a original vocal harmony. Anyway, it's only very basic 3 part harmony that he is trying to impress the world with and also trying to look good by getting Dave Pensado's support. Good for beginners I suppose...

[@FRANKRICECOLD209]

Dave any chance of Getting a INTO THE LAIR on what exactly what he did to get that Vocal sound with WAVES TUNE Thanks for all the great stuff

[@MrJohnnyVolume]

Methinks: After scanning the lead, the engineer selects the line tool, and simply draws a line on the harmony note of the lead - the effect is to reproduce the entire lead phrase on that single harmony note; as the engineer admits, this won't always work and may require each word/note of the phrase to be moved separately, which is exactly what he does for the second line when the lead dips down and then comes up at the end. Anyone else? Other comments are right - the lead note is on a G (natural 5th of Cm), the 1st or lower harmony is an Eb (the third), and the 2nd or higher harmony is a Bb (the dominant 7th),

[@FRANKRICECOLD209]

Awesome Thank Man''

[@RareMade]

Get JMSN in here!!!

[@stevegalante]

I really hope Steven Slate comes up with a decent sounding pitch shifter because all those around sound really horrible (Waves Tune one of the worse) :(

[@sourcefor]

Come on Get Randy Staub in the house...!!!!

[@BukanIbuMu]

Yea. His drum sounds amazing!

[@annakat03]

1:01:25 JMJ isn't amused anymore

[@jasonjasonjasonjasonjason]

Herb so selfishly interrupts after every thought someone else has, he needs to add what he thinks too and talks way too much. I gotta start timing how much time each person talks because I'm pretty sure this is Herb's Place now. And again like the last episodes while audience members are asking questions not directed to them you can see or hear them talking to each other and not paying attention to the question being asked to the guest.

[@keithruddell1800]

MyGameplaying haha do a time of possession for the next video please.

[@annakat03]

Also, jeez Herb is just all about promoting stuff... I'm aware it's for their company or it's one of the requirements for sponsorships, etc, but there has to be better times to plug all the stuff he's been plugging other than, you know, while the interviewees are talking (facepalm) (cringe)

[@quinntruckenbrod9138]

Given that this is a show dedicated to the promotion of the art of audio recording, why oh why are you so lazy and amateurish when it comes to recording the opening (usually way too long) dialogs? It's embarrassing.